If you know C++ already, Unreal is a much more natural starting point than either Unity or Godot.

Unreal is what gets used in many AAA shops - it’s not a monopoly by any means but it is the most common off-the-shelf engine in the industry. Unity’s main edge is that it’s easy to learn but if you are comfortable in C++ then there’s no real benefit to Unity.

Godot uses GDScript, which is a custom scripting language that’s meant to be easy to learn. It’s FOSS so you don’t need to worry about being screwed over - but it’s a lot less mature than something like Unreal which can ship on everything you can think of.

But my advice is to make small things. Don’t hyperfocus on a dream game. Just make things that will take a weekend (maybe a week at most). Then move on to something else.

When I was getting into game dev, I made a couple simple projects then jumped into my dream game. I spent so long making that one game that I never finished.

When I got hired in the industry, they cared more about what I released than what my education or job experience was. Because that one big game was never finished, I wound up with my smaller “just getting started” games on my resume; stuff I had made but wasn’t proud of. But those games were at least finished and available to the public… and they were what got me hired, not my magnum opus overscoped unfinished indie game I never completed.

One thing I found especially dumb is this:

Jobs that require driving skills, like truck and taxi drivers, as well as jobs in the sanitation and beauty industries, are least likely to be exposed to AI, the Indeed research said.

Let’s ignore the dumb shit Tesla is doing. We already see self-driving taxis on the streets. California allows self-driving trucks already, and truck drivers are worried enough to petition California to stop it.

Both of those involve AI - just not generative AI. What kind of so-called “research” has declared 2 jobs “safe” that definitely aren’t?

This guy is always super duper clickbaity and has this holier-than-thou attitude all the time. Thank you for summing it up so I don’t give him the clicks.

You’d only be able to play with people local to you, in the same Stadia datacenter. If Stadia wanted to minimize latency, they would increase the number of datacenters (thus making fewer people per instance).

I would have tried it if I could trust Google to maintain a commitment to something for longer than a couple years (at best).

Freedom of speech. Everyone is able to be heard, even if their opinions are distasteful. It’s what the US was built on and why people can fly swastikas and wear klan hoods without being arrested.

They can only be arrested if they commit a crime, not because their views are horrible. You can walk down the street yelling racial slurs at everyone and that’s perfectly legal as long as you aren’t being violent or inciting others to violence.

That doesn’t mean society has to tolerate them - counter-protesting is alive and well, and Nazis have been fired from their jobs for their views. But the government can’t arrest them simply for being Nazis.

A bit harder to ship on console, though.

At least Unreal is source-available and you only need to use the license for the version of Unreal you use. If Epic changes their license, you don’t need to agree to it and can still ship under the older license.

Godot is a great engine but it isn’t a silver bullet. It can get there, though.

Because a lot of mobile games are made in Unity, and mobile has a higher rate of people who install and then uninstall without really playing the game. People also install things by mistake on mobile, thinking they’re something else.

So by charging based on installs, they’re able to squeeze developers a lot more (especially mobile game developers). Competitor engines like Unreal don’t run very well on mobile.

I’ve been literally saying this for years. Yang had the right idea, and every year it becomes more obvious.

Most industries will be automated within 10-20 years, or so transformed as to be unrecognizable. I’m not just talking about stuff that can be done by AI art tools or a future version of ChatGPT (which is in itself a large chunk of the economy). There’s also logistics (self-driving trucks, trains, taxis, planes, and boats), there’s food service (burger-flipping robots are already a thing), there’s groceries (robot stockers and self-checkouts), there’s hospitality (Japan already has automated hotels), there’s construction (we already see robots at construction sites), etc.

Within a couple decades I see no reason why these jobs would still be commonplace. Compare the world of the 1980s and 1990s to the world of today. Computers in the 80s and 90s are comparable to AI today, and in 2040-2050 I see no reason why we wouldn’t be living in a completely different world.

It’s true that some jobs will simply transform - programmers might become prompt engineers, for example. But many jobs will be eliminated completely, and I don’t buy the argument that people will just find new things to do. At a certain point, people will be automated out of the economy - to borrow an analogy from CGP Grey, the invention of the stagecoach may have been great for horses… but the invention of the car was less great.

I firmly believe that UBI is the only way forward, long-term. COVID already worked as a trial for it, and we’re seeing the economy contract in part because it stopped (in addition to other things, e.g. the Fed).

China doesn’t care. They’ll betray anyone in an instant, because they’re fascists masquerading as the “party of the people”.

The fact that there are so many pro-China supporters on Lemmy that want this shit makes me sad. Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad (same people), Hexbear…

Fuck tankies!

My brain thought I was on !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone for a second

Eh, kinda?

In California generally? Sure; you get a jolt every 1-2 years. Typically they’re over within seconds; you have enough time to register that an earthquake is happening and that it isn’t your imagination, then it ends. A really big one will go on for about a minute or two before it stops; last time we had one of those was back in 2019. Usually they last less than 30 seconds.

This specific area isn’t typically the epicenter of many earthquakes, though. They’re usually to the west (San Andreas Fault) or to the south (San Gabriel Fault, San Jacinto Fault).

So the problem is that white noise doesn’t compress very easily.

Compression algorithms are generally designed to reduce noise; if you have something that’s extremely noisy it’s really hard to compress because that’s not what the algorithms were designed to do.

This means that these podcasts take up more space, which means they use more bandwidth than an equivalent non-white-noise solution.

A middle ground would be banning these “podcasts” and then having a white noise generator built into the app. The white noise generator would run locally on your device (very easy to make white noise) and wouldn’t cost any bandwidth at all.